Latin America Conflict and Creation, a Historical Reader,9780135262603

Latin America Conflict and Creation, a Historical Reader

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ISBN13: 9780135262603
ISBN10: 0135262607
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-08-19
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary

This text reproduces documents that provide a better understanding of the Latin American past and present, and draws most heavily from Latin American sources. It is distinguished by the widest variety of documentation, including art work, short stories, poetry, folk tales and travel accounts. For sociologists, historians, and all those interested in Latin American studies and history.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
The Encounter
1(33)
An Abundant Nature and Promises of Wealth
2(2)
Beautiful Lands and Innocent Natives
4(2)
The Marvels of the Aztec Capital
6(4)
Visual Depiction of the Indians
10(2)
A Negative Impact of Conquest on Indian Society
12(1)
Indian Lamentations
13(2)
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
13(1)
The Imprisonment of Cuauhtemoc
14(1)
Flowers and Songs of Sorrow
15(1)
Murals Depicting Cuauhtemoc
15(3)
The King and the Indian
18(2)
An Indian Assessment of Europe
20(3)
``To Columbus''
23(1)
In the Ancient Land of the Aztecs, the Hurrah for Columbus is Muted
24(3)
Cultural Symbiosis
27(7)
The Stone and the Cross
27(7)
Patterns for Wealth
34(17)
An Example of a Colonial Land Grant
35(1)
Establishing the Basis for the Encomienda System
36(1)
A Grant of Encomienda
37(1)
A Petition to the King to Grant Permanent Encomiendas
38(1)
Slave Labor on a Brazilian Plantation
39(2)
Forced Labor Recruitment
41(2)
A Comfortable Life
43(1)
Sugar Plantations in Brazil at the End of the Colonial Period
44(7)
Patterns for Power
51(25)
Bolivar's Political Prescriptions
52(7)
The Congress of Angostura, 1819
52(4)
The Constitution for Bolivia, 1826
56(3)
Political Advice from a Father to His Son
59(4)
The Caudillo in Spanish America
63(5)
The Brazilian Constitution of 1824: Contractual, Genetic, and Patriarchal
68(4)
The Brazilian Emperor's Perception of His Own Role
72(2)
Poem: ``If I Am Pious, Clement, Just...''
73(1)
Advice to My Daughter and Heir
74(1)
The Brazilian Monarchy and the Empowerment of Youth and a Woman
74(2)
Modernity Vies with Tradition
76(30)
Latin American Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
77(13)
The City and the Countryside: Civilization versus Barbarism
77(4)
Social Life in Brazil in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
81(9)
The Export Economy
90(6)
A Sugar Plantation in Cuba
90(4)
Rising Coffee Exports and Falling Food Surpluses in Brazil, 1850-1860
94(2)
Ordinary People Face Economic Challenges
96(6)
The Dispossessed in Rural Mexico
96(1)
The Indians Lose Their Land
97(2)
Land Monopoly in Pernambuco, Brazil
99(1)
The Standard of Living of Workers in Northeastern Brazil
100(1)
A Description of the Indians of Andean Colombia
101(1)
The Limits of Education
102(4)
Latin Americans Define Themselves
106(41)
An Early Effort to Define Latin America
107(3)
Salvation Through Originality
110(3)
Ariel: The Spiritual Nature of the Latin Americans
113(3)
The African Contribution to Brazilian Civilization
116(7)
Combining European and Local Values into a National Culture
123(2)
La Raza Cosmica: A New Race and a New Ideal
125(4)
Liberating the Spirit of the Artist
129(5)
My Life and Art
130(2)
New World, New Race, and New Art
132(1)
In Defense of National Dance
133(1)
Reinterpreting the Indian Past
134(6)
Masquerading Reality
140(7)
The Quest for Economic Development
147(60)
The Historical Causes of Underdevelopment
149(6)
The Web of Exploitation: State and Peasants in Latin America
155(7)
Dependency Theory
162(8)
The Need for Structural Changes
170(2)
An Early Statement of Economic Nationalism
172(2)
Goals for Development
174(3)
The Problem
174(1)
The Solution
174(3)
Nationalism and Development
177(3)
Artistic and Literary Reactions to Progress
180(27)
Art As Historical Document
180(7)
``An Appeal to Some Learned Doctors''
187(1)
``Rosaura''
188(19)
The Revolutionary Option
207(81)
A Theory of the Natural History of Revolution
208(4)
The Visual Presentation of Popular Protest
212(2)
Land and Revolution
214(4)
The Plan of Ayala
214(1)
Agrarian Reform Begins
215(3)
Is the Mexican Revolution Dead?
218(11)
Mexico's Historical Crisis
218(4)
The Revolution Is Dead
222(7)
The Cuban Revolution
229(25)
Program Manifesto of the 26th of July Movement
229(7)
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
236(6)
Agrarian Reform
242(4)
Women in the Cuban Revolution
246(5)
The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
251(3)
The Nicaraguan Revolution
254(25)
Sandino to Sandinistas: Historical Revolutionary Continuity
254(1)
The Historical Program of the FSLN
255(8)
The Minister of Agriculture Discusses Agrarian Reform
263(3)
A Peasant Discusses Agrarian Reform
266(1)
Elections Derailed the Revolution: What Happened?
267(9)
The Initial Record of the UNO Government
276(3)
Women at War
279(9)
A Lingering Legacy
288(1)
Failure to Resolve the Agrarian Issue
289(5)
The End to Food Self-Sufficiency in Mexico
294(2)
Hunger in Honduras
296(2)
The Burden of the Brazilian Child
298(5)
``It Can Hurt Plenty''
303(10)
``The Glass of Milk''
313(5)
A Major Transformation: Rural to Urban
318(3)
The Challenge to Democracy
321(2)
Misguided Development
323(6)
Making Our Own History
329(3)
New Leadership: Fear and Hope
332(1)
Haiti: Turning into Another Cuba?
333(2)
Haiti: A Plea for Grassroots Development
335(1)
A Postscript
336

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